As a developer, you've probably at least heard something about [CI - Continuous integration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration). And if you haven't - you better fix it ASAP, because that's something awesome to have on your skill list and can get extremely helpful in your everyday work. This post will focus on CI for PHP devs, and specifically, on CI implementation from [Gitlab](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html). I will suppose you know the basics of [Git](https://git-scm.com/), [PHP](https://php.net/), [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/), [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) and unix shell. Intended audience - intermediate PHP devs.

Adding something to your workflow must serve a purpose. In this case the goal is to automate routine tasks and achieve better quality control. Eve...

![Working With Thin Controller And Fat Model Concept In Laravel](https://images.ctfassets.net/vzl5fkwyme3u/18L41PfcrcYYkM0qAsCous/7caca26b8cfb5a643d8cb16b14ae5eae/AdobeStock_147870533.jpeg?w=1000)

Models and controllers are one of the most essential programming handlers in the Laravel MVC framework, and both are used vastly for different functional operations. Models in Laravel are created inside the app folder and are mostly used to interact with the database using Eloquent ORM, while the controllers are located inside the directory App/Http/Controllers.

As a programmer, you should have the knowledge how to keep the balance in between the programming usage of Models and controllers. As which one should be more utilized for allowing functional tasks in applications deployed on any [PHP MySQL hosting](https://www.cloudways.com/en/php-cloud-hosting.php).

Today, I will share with you how to create a PDF file from HTML blade file in Laravel 5.7. We will be using `dompdf` package for generating the PDF file.

In the below example, we will install `barryvdh/laravel-dompdf` using composer package and thereafter we will add new route url with controller. Then we will create a blade file. Then after we have to just run project with serve and we can check the PDF file is for download.

## Download Laravel 5.7

Now I am going to explain the step by step from scratch with laravel installation for `dompdf`. To get started, we need to download fresh Laravel 5.7 application using command, so open our terminal and run the below command in the command prompt:

![Creating a Tiny Blog Management system in Laravel 5.7](https://images.ctfassets.net/vzl5fkwyme3u/7hiPly9aeW8i6IU0wkK4Gg/5b13c5fb7f273be44f44c87fb2ce5f5f/AdobeStock_205314257.jpeg?w=1000)

Hey There,

I am expecting you are familiar with PHP. In this post I will be using the Laravel framework to create a small blog system. I am showing here very simple steps to create blogs, If you want this complete code then please message me.